Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release energy and emit more neutrons. When uranium atoms are packed closely together, however, as they are in power-plant fuel rods, the neutrons emitted by the splitting nuclei break up other nearby nuclei. Each shattered nucleus contributes more neutrons and heat to what has now become a chain reaction, and the heat is used to produce steam that drives the electrical generators...
Standing watch over the elegant sailing ships were the massive, muscular vessels of war: destroyers, frigates, the battleship Iowa and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, from which the President and Mrs. Reagan surveyed the harbor and the Friday-night fireworks. These leviathans provoked a different reaction, a buoyant chauvinism. As a crowded Staten Island ferryboat passed by the Kennedy, one sightseer called out, to cheers and laughter, "Come on over, Gaddafi...
...Reaction to the fashions, shown on French TV, was mixed. Jesuit Theologian Jean Michel welcomed relief from today's "dull and uninspiring" vestments- by-catalog. But a priest at the Paris chancery office saw new evidence of the "crisis in the West." Meanwhile, an old woman entering Notre-Dame cathedral was perturbed: "Why dress up priests as circus performers...
While many harried physicians salute the ancillary care provided by the new entrepreneurs, others fear that nurses playing doctor may fail to spot serious ailments. Says Dr. M. Roy Schwarz, assistant executive vice president of the American Medical Association: "They want to diagnose and treat disease. Our reaction is very simple: if you want to practice medicine, then go to medical school...
When Felipe Gonzalez Marquez's Socialists swept to power in 1982, a jubilant crowd of 4,000 supporters held a raucous celebration outside the party's election headquarters in Madrid. Fearing a violent rightist reaction, Gonzalez urged his supporters to keep cool, saying, "We don't want any saviors with machine guns." Some went to bed that night fearing that the army might try to seize power...